New reports, new measures and highlights.
An update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.
Further delivery of AstraZeneca vaccines to the EU
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced on Sunday January 31 that AstraZeneca would deliver to the EU nine million more doses than planned of its vaccine against the Covid, that is to say 40 million doses in total, a figure up 30%.
The company, which has suffered the wrath of European leaders for several days because of major production delays, "will
start deliveries a week earlier than expected
" and "
will also expand its manufacturing capacity in Europe,
" wrote Ursula von der Leyen on Twitter.
WHO at Wuhan market
Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), who have been investigating the field in China since Friday on the origin of the coronavirus, went to the Huanan market in Wuhan on Sunday, the first known focus of the epidemic.
This market, where live wild animals were sold, has been closed since January 2020.
Hospitalizations on the rise in France
France has recorded nearly 20,000 new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours, while the number of hospitalizations and resuscitations is on the rise, according to official figures released on Sunday.
Schools will reopen on February 8 in the Netherlands
Closed in mid-December, Dutch preschools and primary schools are expected to reopen on February 8 amid a drop in the rate of contamination by the coronavirus in the Netherlands, the government announced on Sunday.
Contaminated mink farm in Poland
The Polish Ministry of Agriculture announced on Sunday evening the discovery of the first case in this country of mink contaminated with Covid-19.
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Administrative measures have been taken for the liquidation of the animals
" of the farm located around Kartuzy (north), according to the same source.
Police interventions in Vienna, Brussels and Poland
About 10,000 people, including neo-Nazis, braved Sunday in Vienna, in violation of health measures, a ban on demonstrating against the curfew and confinement decided by the government to try to contain the coronavirus.
At the same time, nearly 500 people were pre-emptively arrested Sunday in Brussels to prevent two protests banned by authorities against anti-Covid measures, a local police spokesperson told AFP.
The Polish police have carried out several raids on clubs and discotheques open despite the ban.
Israel: crowd at the funeral of a rabbi
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews attended a rabbi's funeral in Jerusalem on Sunday, in violation of rules imposed by authorities to stem the Covid-19 pandemic.
More than 2.2 million dead
The pandemic has killed more than 2.2 million people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources, Sunday at 11:00 GMT.
More than 102.5 million cases of infection have been diagnosed.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (441,302), followed by Brazil (224,504), Mexico (158,074), India (154,274) and the United Kingdom (105,571).
The global death toll is globally underestimated.
It is based on the daily reports from the national health authorities.